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The Seven Peaks of Azerbaijan is a masterplan for a Zero Energy resort and entertainment city on Zira Island, situated in the Caspian Sea. Located within the crescent shaped bay of Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, Zira Island is designed to be a sustainable model for urban development, and an iconographic skyline recognizable from the city’s coastline.
The Seven Peaks of Azerbaijan proposes a resort development derived from the natural landscape – an architectural landscape reflecting the seven famous peaks of Azerbaijan.
Individually, each mountain is a principle for mixing private and public functions. A dense vibrant urban community connects a series of private resort villages by a central public valley with golf courses and beaches.
The mountains are conceived not only as metaphors, but engineered as entire eco-systems, a model for future sustainable urban development. By combining the best of the Azerbaijani building tradition with the newest technology, Zira Island has high-end living spaces, with a minimum usage of resources.
Bjarke Ingels Kai-Uwe Bergmann Andreas Klok Pedersen Pauline Lavie-Luong Doug Stechschulte Alexandru Cozma Maxime Enrico Niels Damsgaard Oana Simionescu Ondrej Janku Kinga Rajczykowska Kinga Rajczykowska Pal Arnulf Trodahl Molly Price Sylvia Feng
AWARDS
MIPIM Asia Awards, Future Projects Finalist, 2009
COLLABORATORS
Rambøll
PIHL
